All 9 Uses of
gesticulate
in
War and Peace
- When Boris appeared at his door Pierre was pacing up and down his room, stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating.†
Chpt 1
- The soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and despite the general's presence were talking loudly and gesticulating.†
Chpt 2 *
- Prince Andrew, greatly changed and plainly in better health, but with a fresh horizontal wrinkle between his brows, stood in civilian dress facing his father and Prince Meshcherski, warmly disputing and vigorously gesticulating.†
Chpt 8
- …still more perturbed by the fact that he had uttered this obvious falsehood, and that Balashev still stood silently before him in the same attitude of submission to fate, Napoleon abruptly turned round, drew close to Balashev's face, and, gesticulating rapidly and energetically with his white hands, almost shouted: "Know that if you stir up Prussia against me, I'll wipe it off the map of Europe!" he declared, his face pale and distorted by anger, and he struck one of his small hands…†
Chpt 9
- He frowned before his looking glass, gesticulated, shrugged his shoulders, and finally, without saying a word to anyone, took his cap and left the house by the back door, trying to avoid notice.†
Chpt 9
- Denisov rose and began gesticulating as he explained his plan to Bolkonski.†
Chpt 10
- Beside him sat Uvarov, who with rapid gesticulations was giving him some information, speaking in low tones as they all did.†
Chpt 11
- Only at the end of it, in front of the almshouse and the lunatic asylum, could be seen some people in white and others like them walking singly across the field shouting and gesticulating.†
Chpt 11
- "Why this," began Pierre, not sitting down but pacing the room, sometimes stopping short, gesticulating, and lisping: "the position in Petersburg is this: the Emperor does not look into anything.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(gesticulate) to make gestures (hand or body movements) while speaking or to express something